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The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
— John Steinbeck
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
— Avi
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
— Kate DiCamillo
Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
— Pamela Paul
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
— Anamika Mishra
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
— G. Willow Wilson
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
— William Landay
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
— Michael Cunningham
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
— Carla H. Krueger
Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.
— Nicholaa Spencer
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
— Gunter Grass
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
— William Meikle
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Four great adventures; read, learn, write and travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
— Joy Fielding
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.
— George R R Martin
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
— Avijeet Das
Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways.
— Shannon L. Alder
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
— Louis Dudek
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.
— Ian Plimer
All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.
— Tanya Huff
By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I couldn't admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck 'em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.
— Christos Tsiolkas
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
— Carla H. Krueger
I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!
— Samuel Colbran
Your first written sentence is the foundation of all of your dreams.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
— Alan Furst
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.
— Daniel Handler
when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
People visit exposed and vulnerable; writers live there
— Alisa Hope Wagner
There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War, and also Peace, which are both premium books.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.
— Robin Sacredfire
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
— Tatiana De Rosnay
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.
— Savi Sharma
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.
— Nicholaa Spencer
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
— Lev Grossman
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie
— Susan Marie
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
— Ray Bradbury
Just write. That's my only tip. And read. I guess that's two.
— Shannon Celebi
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
— Carla H. Krueger
This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
— Chrys Fey
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
— Marianne Williamson
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
— James Salter
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.
— Jen Lancaster
Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don't let stress steal your joy.
— Sarra Cannon
Books can change the world. They represent a second chance for those that want to change their life and can't.
— Robin Sacredfire
Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.
— Jaime Reed
Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
— Carla H. Krueger
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
— Margaret Atwood
Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.
— Christopher B. Krebs
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
— Gail Z. Martin
I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better.
— Jojo Moyes
The best gift you can give me is a book.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
— Alberto Manguel
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
— Jane Yolen
I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.
— Anthony Horowitz
I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.
— Ryan Lilly
I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.
— Avijeet Das
I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.
— Avijeet Das
Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.
— Brenda Sutton Rose
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
— Carla H. Krueger
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
— Susie Bright
Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
— Carla H. Krueger
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard 1890
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
— Betsy Byars
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
— Paul Auster